The MB have done more to harm their brand than anything Assad, Sadat, or Mubarak were ever able to achieve, and in less time and with less bloodshed either.

In the year since they rose to power, the Islamists in Cairo have found themselves on the precipice, and the military’s about ready to show them the door.

It still boils down to economics. The Egyptian economy is still in the doldrums, tourism hasn’t recovered from last year, and there’s no real improvement on the horizon.

Not that the secularists are likely to do any better - it’s just that they got sidelined by the Islamists in the elections and in getting the constitution approved.